Labor
and Property
5. Property Ownership in Modern Society: Rights and Responsibilities
St. Thomas
Aquinas’ writings described the requirements of the common good of private
property. Additionally, the Catholic teachings with Pope Paul VI
identifying how the wealthy owners of
property in Latin America hurt the poor where some laborers left their
plantation uncultivated for a period and some laborers were close to
starvation. However, by the 1960s, social
conditions changed and popes have modified the teaching to reflect new
challenges. Pope John XXIII identifies the
government efforts to exercise social responsibility called socialization. Pope
John Paul II introduced limitation upon private property. The fundamental nature of property ownership
challenges have many assumptions about the relationship between people and
goods and that people should not use property in ways that would harm the less
fortunate.
6. The Dignity of
work, Rights of Workers, and Support for Labor Unions
Leo XIII
and John Paul II held the ideal of worker’s justice that applied to the conditions that faced workers
in the actual workplace and in the labor markets. Some labor unions were associated with
corruption, favoritism, and violent strikes.
Labor Unions drove up the cost of doing business and sacrificed the
competitiveness of industries due to wage demands. However, union-free workplaces were involved
with deplorable working conditions and exploited workers. The Catholic social teachings supported the
labor unions. The Catholic social teachings identified that organized labor
unions were part of obtaining justice so that workers would not be powerless to
employers who can take advantage of them. However, the Catholic social
teachings were aware of the problems that people faced in their jobs. John Paul II, “Laborem Exercens,” emphasizes
the “priority of labor over capital.” Finally
private property represents the wages that one had the right to earn and that
individuals needed private property to served themselves and their family.
I affirm
that the private property guidelines had tried to maintain the respect and
dignity of the people in the workplace historically. I endorse all Popes that hold peace, the
social well-being and development, and respect of the common good. I affirm that work unites people in that
social order still continues to struggle today due to controversial
opposition. Finally, I warrant that
labor union today remains a method of social order in the workplace.
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